On Wednesday, November 2, the Canadian Association of University Teachers will launch its national campaign: “Save Library and Archives Canada”.The campaign will expose how major restructuring of Library and Archives Canada is undermining the institution responsible for preserving Canada’s history and heritage. “Library and Archives Canada is cutting services and acquisitions. Unless this is reversed, the damage to our country will be enormous,” said CAUT’s executive director James L. Turk.
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Vandals have defaced Kansas City’s new $400,000 Missouri Korean War Memorial near Union Station. The vandals have struck the memorial several times over the last two weeks, said Debra Shultz, who helped make the memorial a reality.
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was the First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945. She supported the New Deal policies of her husband, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and became an advocate for civil rights.
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Polish authorities have reopened an investigation into crimes committed at Auschwitz and its satellite camps during World War II. It is estimated that one million people - mostly Jews and non-Jewish Poles - were killed at the Nazi death camp.
The Royal Society has today announced that its world-famous historical journal archive – which includes the first ever peer-reviewed scientific journal – has been made permanently free to access online.
A 24-year-old man who vandalised historic gravestones at Canberra's oldest church has been jailed. James Dudley March pleaded guilty to damaging 14 headstones in the graveyard beside the Anglican Church of St John the Baptist in Reid in May.
Family members said pieces of their history are now gone! This weekend a number of historical markers vanished from a Knox County cemetery. Some of those headstones are more than one hundred years old.
A Scots-born Canadian soldier who was killed less than two months before the end of World War I has been buried 93 years after his death in France. Private Alexander Johnston died, aged 33, during the Battle of the Canal du Nord in northern France in 1918.
The Copiale cipher is an 105-page coded document found in an East German archive, and dated to 1866 - but the code used to shield its mysteries has remained unbroken, until now.
Sport divers off the northern coast of Borneo have discovered the wreck of a Dutch World War II submarine, missing for the past 70 years, the Dutch defence ministry said Monday. "The Hr. Ms. KXVI, which has been missing with a crew of 36 since 1941, has been found," it said in a statement released in The Hague.
They were all founded between 1535 and 1728, but the UK's 10 oldest family businesses are showing no signs of ageing, such as slowing down. Instead, companies like RJ Balson and Son show impressive levels of stability and longevity, according to a study by the Institute for Family Business.
This Catholic man holds one of the most incredible concentration camp escape stories of World War Two, after he sneaked his Jewish girlfriend out of Auschwitz in 1944 by dressing up as an S.S. officer.
The Australian government is calling on Britain to pardon two of its soldiers executed more than a century ago for war crimes in South Africa.
A rare Royal Naval uniform worn by a British survivor of the Battle of Trafalgar has been unearthed after spending decades in the attic of one of the sailor's descendants.
Gates was born on October 28, 1955, in Seattle, Washington, to William H. Gates, Sr. and Mary Maxwell Gates, of English, German, and Scotch-Irish descent. His family was upper middle class; his father was a prominent lawyer, his mother served on the board of directors for First Interstate BancSystem and the United Way, and her father, J. W. Maxwell, was a national bank president.
We are working on improving the Online Family Tree access rights and a new section has been added to the GeneaNet menu.
Would your society like to honor a genealogist whose exemplary work lives on today? Perhaps there was a notable genealogist in your state or county whose name should be memorialized in the NGS Hall of Fame.
Nearly 150 years after a Union Army captain pilfered a book of court records from a county courthouse in Virginia during the Civil War, the Jersey City Free Public Library has returned the 220-year-old spoil of war to its rightful home.
With Halloween just around the corner, let The Gravestone Girls dig up all the spooky stuff happening in Hudson's cemeteries. On Saturday, Oct. 22, founder Brenda Sullivan will discuss "Welcome to the Graveyard: Focus on Hudson, MA Cemeteries'' at the Hudson Public Library at 3 Washington St.
This country stores its newspaper archives, stack by stack, in a basement and three old warehouses in Ottawa—with little public access. Paper of Record, Bob Huggins’s ambitious digitization project, would have changed that, but it’s history now.
While a number of people have searched for years for the grave of Raynham Civil War soldier Frederick C. Anderson, a Pawtucket, R.I., man found it in just six months. Anderson was a farmer who received the Medal of Honor after heroically capturing an enemy battle flag and its bearer in 1864.
In recent years, interest in genealogy has become a globe-conquering phenomenon; now, with the rise of consumer genetics, we can expect them to become ever more detailed and far-reaching. In Ancestors and Relatives: Genealogy, Identity, and Community, Eviatar Zerubavel, a sociologist at Rutgers, pulls back the curtain on the genealogical obsession.
An international team of archaeologists has unearthed what might be the earliest representation of childbirth in western art, they announced today. Consisting of two images of a woman giving birth to a child, the intimate scene was found on a small fragment from a ceramic vessel that is more than 2,600 years old.
Twenty-one German soldiers have been discovered in a World War I tunnel in Alsace, France, 93 years after they were buried alive during battle. Under the rich Alsatian soil lies a labyrinth of passageways buried into the Lerchenberg hills. Built nearly 100 years ago, they were used by soldiers to shelter from shelling during the Great War.
He lay in a single shallow grave on the fringes of a battlefield in northern France for 90 years, his two regimental collar badges among the little remains of the unknown Scots soldier.
"Organised" football was being played in castle courtyards in Scotland more than 500 years ago, experts have found. Documents show a set of accounts from the court of King James IV indicating he paid two shillings for a bag of "fut ballis" in April 1497.
A mother has discovered her young son's gravestone has been stolen from a churchyard in Lincolnshire. Michelle Holness's son Dion died, aged five, 12 years ago and was laid to rest at St John's Baptist in Belleau.
The weather for Peter Belin’s flight home from Europe was largely serene. It was early in May 1937, and as touchdown in New Jersey approached, the recent Yale graduate snapped photos of the airport’s three-story hangar, the ground crew, and the stark, oval shadow of his mode of transportation, the Hindenburg zeppelin.
For 90 years, his final resting place was unknown. His service, however was commemorated on the Vimy Memorial near Arras, France, where the names of more than 11,000 other Canadians who have no known grave also appear.
The new museum to commemorate the once-overlooked World War I Battle of Fromelles will be a shrine-like, octagonal concrete building dug into a small hill on the fringe of the northern French village.
The secrets of the Rare Book and Manuscript Library on the sixth floor of Van Pelt Library have now been revealed on the internet.
On September 25, 1660, the great chronicler, Sarnuel Pepys, made the following entry in his diary: ‘And afterwards did send for a Cupp of Tee (a China drink) of which I had never drank before’.
Scientists are studying the DNA of a woman who was the world's oldest person until her death at the age of 115, in the belief it could contain the secrets to long life. Dutch woman Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper was born in 1890 and became the word's oldest person in May 2004 before her death in August the following year.
Carrie Frances Fisher is an American actress, novelist, screenwriter, and lecturer. She is most famous for her portrayal of Princess Leia Organa in the original Star Wars trilogy.
A South Korean woman has been offered a little over $4 in government compensation for the death of her brother during the 1950-53 Korean War, embarrassing officials who say they were bound by an out-dated law.
A new Online Family Tree (GeneWeb) option lets you display the day of week in the events date (birth, baptism, marriage, death and burial).
Police say they have arrested a man who has been stealing markers from the graves of veterans and selling them to scrap metal yards. Worcester police say Allan Long Jr., of North Grafton, stole 142 veteran bronze memorial grave markers and 76 brass rods.
Scientists used the degraded strands to reconstruct the entire genetic code of the deadly bacterium. It is the first time experts have succeeded in drafting the genome of an ancient pathogen, or disease-causing agent.
Researchers, historians and students may soon conveniently access records, documents, manuscripts and records artifacts from the National Archives of the Philippines as the agency migrates its priceless collection into digitalized formats and copies as a strategic move for archival preservation.
Based on users’ feedback they’ve been receiving since their launch in November 2008, 
Library and Archives Canada is pleased to announce the release of a new version of the online database Home Children (1869-1930).More than 20,000 names of children, who came to Canada between 1925 and 1932, were added to the extended version. The names were extracted from passengers lists held at Library and Archives Canada.
The lives of modern-day Canadians are full of examples of the accomplishments that women have made throughout history. This October during Women's History Month, we honour women - in Canadian history and in our family trees - and the contributions they have made to the growth of our nation.
Fifteen Anglo-Saxon skeletons unearthed in Oxfordshire last year have been re-interred in a church memorial garden. A requiem mass was held on Saturday before a wicker coffin containing all the remains was buried at the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Bicester.
Real-Time Collaboration and Legacy Family Tree have announced the addition of thousands of SourceTemplates and a SourceTemplate model to help standardize the tracking of source materials.
Julie Burns loves cemeteries. To her there's nothing morbid or scary about them. "Cemeteries are places where people are laid to rest and perhaps forgotten but they made a contribution to society," she said.
The Chair of the Friends of St Alfege Park, Tim Delap, has made his first comments since the controversy broke over the damage to headstones.
Sarah Margaret Ferguson was born on October 15, 1959, the second daughter of Major Ronald Ferguson and his first wife, Susan Mary Wright. Sarah's older sister is Jane Ferguson Luedecke, a public relations executive now living and working in Australia.
Some of you were disappointed that the Online Family Tree (GeneWeb) search results list didn't clearly show the direct ancestors of the GeneaNet member.
Digital Public Library of America invites interested candidates to participate in the public conference to showcase innovative ideas for the Digital Public Library of America in Washington, DC on October 21, 2011.
A piece of Davis County history is now easy for people to miss. But local residents are trying to save it. The city of Layton is looking for help to preserve a century-old train depot, where families saw their loved ones off to war during WWI and WWII. Presently, an old, boarded up building sits by the Layton FrontRunner Station, where those old memories remain.
A cemetery could stand in the way of the sale of a historic church on Auckland's North Shore. The proposed sale has angered locals fighting to the save the graves, who say the move is illegal.
Progress of the Project of Preservation and communication of First World War archives leads to interruption in research of individual data. By starting the digitization of the archives of the International Agency for Prisoners of war (1914-1919) in late 2010, a definite step has been made towards the preservation of these documents, which are protected by Unesco Memory of the World program and meant to be a memorial to the war prisoners of the First World War.
One couple's attempt to update their front lawn leads them to unearthing some Niles, Michigan, history from the 1800's. Terry and Judy Truesdell have been walking into their home for more than four decades and unknowingly stepping over a little piece of history each time.
Unseen photographs taken by the famous explorer are revealed in a new book, The Lost Photographs of Captain Scott, published today. Largely forgotten, the photos were taken by Captain Robert Falcon Scott himself in 1912, during the last fateful months of his epic Terra Nova expedition to the South Pole.
If modern history is unlikely to overlook women's role, there's a great deal of the past to catch up on; so a new initiative from the West Yorkshire archive and Huddersfield university is sure to get plenty of use and appreciation.
The National Archives of the UK will soon start to digitise the WO 95 record series, which consists of unit war diaries from the First World War. The series is one of the most requested in their reading rooms in Kew, and digitising it means that they will be able to make the diaries more accessible by publishing them online.
For 90 years, Asko Vuorinen's ancestors lived in a stately, red farmhouse atop the hill, 400 miles north of Helsinki, Finland, that they called Mulikka. "The original house dated back to 1564, and it is said that nearly everyone from the area goes back to Antti Mulikka, who came there, far inland, and built the house," Vuorinen said.
A project to plant a new forest on moorland above Dumbarton has unexpectedly revealed a wartime secret. The Woodland Trust has unearthed a concrete bunker in the centre of the Lang Craigs site that controlled decoy lights.
One photograph collector in Ontario, Canada, claims he has found a picture of John Travolta from a previous incarnation in 1860. The 150-year-old photo of a man who looks remarkably like Travolta has been put up for sale on eBay. The photo is listed at $50,000 or nearest offer, and while it has a large price tag comes with free shipping and gift wrapping.
From today, the responsibility for archives across England transfers to The National Archives from the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA).
An archaelogical dig has uncovered medieval marvels and clues to one of Canterbury's biggest wartime tragedies. A team from the Canterbury Archaeological Trust has discovered rare pots and post-medieval clay floors hidden beneath 18th and 19th century buildings while excavating the foundations of Franklyn House in Sturry High Street.
The still common assumption is that Aboriginal Australians in 1788 were simple hunter-gatherers who relied on chance for survival and moulded their lives to the country where they lived. Historian Bill Gammage might have driven the last nail into the coffin of this notion.
The youngest survivor of Britain's worst maritime disaster has called for a memorial in England to the victims. About 5,000 people died when World War II ship Lancastria was bombed off the French coast in 1940.
In celebration of American Archives Month, the Clerk of Civil District Court's Notarial Archives Research Center will be offering a series of free tours of its collection and seminars on researching New Orleans house histories. The tours are designed to introduce the public to three centuries of real estate records, numbering some 40 million pages.
Sigourney Weaver was born on October 8, 1949, the daughter of Elizabeth Inglis (née Desiree Mary Lucy Hawkins; 1913–2007), an English actress, and the NBC television executive and television pioneer Sylvester "Pat" Weaver (1908–2002). Her uncle, Doodles Weaver, was a comedian and actor.
Some new features have been added to the Headstones & Memorials database.